Hudson Williams, Mariska Hargitay, & More Celebrities Join Florence Pugh in Speaking Out About Cornell 7

Several celebrities have now spoken out about the Cornell 7, the men who are accused of sexually assaulting a female student in 2024.

Trigger warning: sexual violence.

Seven men are being accused of rape and drugging a former student, and the events were discovered by the public after she filed a lawsuit against the college. She was allegedly in attendance at a Chi Pi fraternity party when the reported crime occurred.

The woman, who has not been publicly identified, alleges she was assaulted for hours. Included in the lawsuit was a message that allegedly was sent by some of the accused, seemingly messaging about the act of violence.

None of the men in question were arrested or charged with a crime.

The story has picked up on social media over the last few days, and now, many celebrities are sharing thoughts on this horrific lawsuit.

Josh Gad

“When we start setting a precedent that our girls and women can be brutally raped, and the resulting disciplinary action is to hand out (checks notes) ESSAYS (like it’s Bart Simpson being a lil’ rascal) about why it was wrong to brutally violate an innocent girl, we have lost our ****ing minds,” he wrote on social media.

Mariska Hargitay

She reposted a statement that said, “Yes, I think we should ruin the futures of adult men who drug and gang rape a woman. Thanks for asking” and “57 men were in that fraternity group chat. 57. Not one of them stopped it,” she wrote on social media.”

Hudson Williams

“Arrest them. **** them and *** Cornell, too!” he wrote on social media.

Jameela Jamil

“I think the likes of the Cornell 7 shouldn’t be allowed penises anymore. They used them as weapons, so now they have to be confiscated. I think jail time, legal castration and a removal of the shaft seems like the bare minimum,” she wrote.

Florence Pugh

After reading about the young woman who was gang raped at her college by her friend and school peers, I’m feeling uneasy and sick and anxious. I’m processing quietly and watching everything and everyone and every man. I have a few thoughts on this horrific act that happened at Cornell College in 2024. I know this has happened before, and I hate the idea of it happening again.

This is really the moment where we need our men to be as horrified and as sickened as us. You need to be leading conversations about how we change the allowance and complicity of this behaviour as much as we are. How can you expect us to trust that it’s “not all men” when in moments like this, many of you stay quiet?

A drugged gang rape takes action and conversations. It immediately makes me wonder- had it been in the works for a while? Was the damage of this poor woman’s body thought about over and over before? Every single person who knew or heard about this happening, should be looked at with serious concern. They are as evil as those planning it. To know that a torture as violent as rape is about to happen ‘upstairs’ and not do ANYTHING ABOUT IT, is sick, cowardly and cold.

The thing that makes me most heartbroken, is it’s a want to kill a soul. This is a killing of a soul. Destroying of a body and killing of a soul. And they’ve been let off? All it takes is write a quick ‘I’m so sorry I raped a girl while she was drugged with my friends, we thought it would be fine?’ essay and you’re good to go! This is unacceptable.

We are not hard enough on those that want to damage human lives. I salute all those at the college that are fighting for that girl, exposing those boys and making life unbearably impossible to find joy during their terms. They should not be allowed to walk freely like the rest of us who treasure and care for souls.

Colleges/schools/universities repeatedly fail women around the world. You build men that get taught through time and time again that they can do extreme harm and that they won’t be harmed in return.

I’m no longer tired- I’m enraged by schools protecting boys, in fear of their futures being wrecked. What about the life that those girls then have to endure, with the knowledge that his reputation is more precious than her truth? Or to feel that no one with the power to do something cares that you were abused. It’s further soul-destroying.

Those that protect and lightly sentence men that rape and destroy, should be punished and watched closely. Why are you protecting someone that fiercely?

There is no equality until you respect our bodies. There is no equality until you stop damaging our souls. There is no equality until you let us live. There is no equality until we can say we feel safe. We are the life force of this earth, start ****ing protecting us. Be angry for us. Please. (via Instagram)

Florence was one of the first celebrities to speak out about the Cornell sexual assault case, and actually called out Instagram, too.

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